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Coordinates: 53°04′05″N 2°20′55″W / 53.068147, -2.348657
Barthomley is a village and Ancient Parish, and is now a civil parish in the Crewe and Nantwich district of Cheshire, England. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 202.[1] The village is situated near junction 16 of the M6 motorway and by the border with Staffordshire. It is about three miles south-west of Alsager.
The hamlet of Radway Green, location of a Royal Ordnance Factory, is within the parish, north-east of the village of Barthomley and just outside Alsager. There was a railway station in Radway Green, on the Crewe to Derby Line, as well as a station reserved for the factory at Millway. However, both of these are now closed. Radway Green and Barthomley station closed to goods traffic on 7 June 1964, followed by its closure to passengers on 7 November, 1966.[2]
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Barthomley was an Ancient Parish within Cheshire. It contained five townships: Alsager, Balterley, Barthomley itself, Crewe, and Haslington.[3] Of these, Balterley township and (now) civil parish was and is entirely in the neighbouring county of Staffordshire, and Crewe was later renamed Crewe Green to avoid confusion with the neighbouring unparished borough and railway town.[4] All five townships were made separate civil parishes in 1866.[3]
The Cheshire part of the ancient parish lay within Nantwich Hundred, Nantwich Poor Law Union, and Nantwich Rural Sanitary District,[3] whilst the Staffordshire part lay in North Pirehill hundred, Newcastle under Lyme Poor Law Union and Rural Sanitary District.[5] Later on, the modern civil parish (now entirely in Cheshire) was part of Nantwich Rural District.[3]
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[edit] Bibliography used for Notes
- Scholes, R. (2000) Towns and Villages of Britain: Cheshire. Sigma Press: Wilmslow, Cheshire. ISBN 1850586373.
- Speake, R. (Ed.) (1995). Barthomley: The Story of an Estate Village. Keele, Staffs.: Barthomley Local History Group and Department of Adult and Continuing Education, Keele University. ISBN 0903160331.
- Youngs, F. A. (1991). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England. Volume I: Northern England. London: Royal Historical Society. ISBN 0861931270.
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